Ukraine: Head of American diplomacy expected in Kyiv two months after war begins

• Anton Blinken and Austin Lloyd, the United States’ diplomatic and defense chiefs, are expected in Kyiv on Sunday, the first American visit to Ukraine after exactly two months of a war still raging in the east and south. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talks will focus on US arms sales to Ukraine.
• Despite numerous demands for a armistice Fighting and shooting continued for the Easter weekend of the Orthodox Christians.
• At least eight people, including a baby, were killed in Russian attacks on the port city on SaturdayOdesa, according to a report by the Ukrainian Presidency. For its part, the Russian army claimed to have used “high-precision missiles” to attack a logistics terminal at the military airfield near Odessa, which houses weapons supplied to the Ukrainian armed forces by the United States and European countries.
• In the region of LuhanskSix civilians were killed in eastern Ukraine, victims of Russian attacks near the village of Girské.
• HAS Mariupol, a strategic port in southeastern Ukraine devastated by weeks of bombing, a fresh attempt to evacuate civilians to the city of Zaporizhia failed on Saturday. Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for these mistakes.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy called again for a meeting with the Russian President, Vladimir Poutine, “end the war”. But he warned that if its soldiers, holed up in the huge Azovstal metallurgical complex in Mariupol, were killed by the Russian army, Kyiv would abandon negotiations with Moscow.
• The Secretary General of United NationsAntonio Guterres, a key mediator in the conflict in Ukraine, will travel to Turkey on Monday before heading to Moscow and Kyiv, the UN said in a statement.
• number of refugees According to the United Nations, nearly 5.2 million people are fleeing the Russian invasion. More than 7.7 million people have left their homes but are still in Ukraine.

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